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BY IMOGEN LINDSLEYSTAFF WRITER
Yik Yak is an anonymous social media site that allows individuals to “get a live feed about what everyone’s saying around you.” But a problem occurs when the users — 95 percent of which are from colleges and uni-versities — also receive a live feed about what every-one is saying about them.
On Oct. 21, 72 wom-en’s and civil rights orga-n i z a t i o n s gathered in W a s h i n g -ton D.C. to a d v o c a t e for the U.S. Department of Educa-tion to insist that colleg-es monitor anonymous social media for racist and sexual comments to protect students who are identifi able.
However, the University is not monitoring or ban-ning the app to prevent offensive comments.
Associate Dean of Stu-dents Justin Brown said silencing hate does not help.
“Hate always fi nds a way to be heard,” he said. “Our
goal should be to undermine the ideology itself, not its voice.”
Rachel Storm, assis-tant director at the Wom-en’s Resource Center , said social media can be used for social justice as much as it can be used to exploit or harass others.
“Social media has been a tremendous space for calling out racism, sexism, trans-phobia and other sys-tems of oppression,” she said. “If you see something oppressive online, speak up and if someone is harassing you or someone you know, reach out for help.”
Efforts to protect stu-dents against h a r m f u l posts have r e s u l t e d in 130,000 schools in the U.S. banning the app.
M at t hew Mullen, a stu-dent at Mich-igan State University, posted, “I’m gonna (image of a pistol) the school at 12:15 p.m.
today,” on Yik Yak on Nov. 24, 2014. In March this year he was sentenced to two years of probation and charged an $800 fi ne.
In April, over 500 stu-dents protested against rac-ist comments on Yik Yak at Colby College in Maine . In May, female students at University of Mary Wash-
BY JOE LONGOSTAFF WRITER
One in four undergraduate students reportedly misuse prescription drugs, accord-ing to a study by Ohio State University.
The study, conducted by a center at Ohio State Uni-versity, notes prescription drug abuse is rampant on college campuses. 18.6 per-cent of students reported using stimulants, primarily to boost their grades. About half of students who reported using non-prescription pain medication said that they used the drugs to get high.
University of Illinois Police Department Sgt. Joe McCullough said that most University students charged with misuse or abuse of pre-
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Stopping stigma Comedy in C-U Football heads to PurdueEditorialContinuing stigma over mental illness limits understanding and treatment.
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BY LILLY MASHAYEKSTAFF WRITER
A banner reading “let’s give hunger an expira-tion date” greeted students outside of the Illini Union Wednesday, encourag-ing passers by to visit the mobile HungerU RV that was parked on Anniversa-ry Plaza for the day.
The University was the last of eight stops on Hun-gerU’s semester-long cam-paign to educate students about hunger and global food security.
“Our goal is to get stu-dents more aware of these issues, to talk about them — with the role that modern agriculture plays in solving them — and to get them more engaged, whether in their community, or with their major,” said Fiona Coleman, a HungerU crew member.
The HungerU RV housed
three digital screens that displayed statistics on glob-al food security and a prize wheel, which gave students who took a short quiz about international food security a chance to win frisbees and backpacks. For every quiz
taken, HungerU donated funds to local campus kitch-ens to help provide meals.
“Illinois is on our list, being that it has a big agri-culture program and also that it’s a really big, bus-tling, active campus,” Cole-
man said. “We know that we can engage a lot of students here.”
She said there are sev-eral ways students can get involved in ending food security, on and off campus. HungerU’s goal is to start a
campus conversation about food security and to urge students to think about how problems surrounding global food security problems can be solved.
Michelle Stewart, an Illi-nois farmer and member of
the Farm Journal Foundation was on campus to speak to students about food secu-rity. She said HungerU is a Farm Journal Foundation initiative.
The Farm Journal Foun-dation educates legislators
about the Global Food Secu-rity Act and ways to ensure that money is spent improv-ing agriculture infrastruc-ture in other countries, rather than only supplying food, she said.
Coleman said it’s likely HungerU will visit the Uni-versity again within the next couple of years.
“We’ve had such an amazing outcome here on this campus, it’s been our busiest campus yet,” Cole-man said. “A lot of students really want to know what they can do.”
HungerU educates students on food security, makes local donations
Anonymous app allows for online harassmentOrganizations advocate for monitoring of social media
1 in 4 has been bullied more than once
Nearly 43% of kids have been bullied online
Girls are about twice as likely as boys to be targets
of cyber bullying
70% of students report seeing frequent bullying online
90% of teens who have seen social-media bullying say they have ignored it
81% of young people think bullying online is easier to get away with than bullying in person
SOURCE: DoSomething.org KELSIE TRAVERS THE DAILY ILLINI
Studies show online harassment is frequent among young people
SOURCE: The Ohio State University Office of Student Life NATALIE GACEK THE DAILY ILLINI
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“Our goal should be to
undermine the ideology itself, not its voice.”
JUSTIN BROWNASSOCIATE DEAN OF
STUDENTS
“Illinois is on our list being that it has a big agriculture program and also that it’s
a really big, bustling, active campus.”FIONA COLEMAN
HUNGERU CREW MEMBER
SEE DRUGS | 3A
SEE BULLYING | 3A
KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINIMadeline Skellie, a HungerU crew member tells students what the organization's goals are and how students can help on the quad Nov. 4, 2015.
Study fi nds increase in prescription drug accessibility
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Champaign• Nothing to report.
University • An arrest was made for do-
mestic battery Sunday at approx-imately 3:30 a.m. in the 0-100 block of East Chalmers Avenue.
According to the report, the offender was a University student.
• An arrest was made Sunday
in the 400 block of East Armory Avenue for domestic battery and resisting an offi cer at approximately 1:20 a.m.
According to the report, police were called by a witness and the offender ran when ordered to stop.
Urbana• Criminal damage to property
was reported Tuesday around 10:00 a.m. in the 1000 block of East Green Street.
According to the report, an unknown offender spray painted the park’s sidewalk, garden beds and two water fountains for the past two nights.
• Criminal damage to property was reported Tuesday in the 1500 block of North Lincoln Avenue around 12:45 a.m.
According to the report, the arrestee admitted to damaging the victim’s property.
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DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORTThe offenders of Mon-
day’s pepper spray incident near the Main Quad have been identifi ed, according to a campus safety update sent by University police Tues-day evening.
The police received infor-mation that led to the iden-tifi cation of the “juvenile offender and others who were with that person at the time,” according to the brief. University police will continue to investigate.
The aggravated battery occurred Monday around
6:00 p.m. just south of the Illini Union at 1401 W. Green St., according to the initial campus safety notice sent out Tuesday morning.
The victim is a student who was approached by four women while walking, one of whom pepper sprayed her in the face. The offenders fl ed from the scene toward Wright Street. The student was not seriously injured. Security cameras are locat-ed in the area of the assault and captured images of the event but the offenders have not yet been identifi ed.
The safety notice is the third in six days and the second aggravated battery. University of Illinois Police Spokesman Pat Wade said although it may appear to be an unusual amount of
crime in a short time peri-od, it shouldn’t necessarily be a cause for concern about crime on campus.
“Obviously any time we see three campus safe-ty notices in one week, I wouldn’t call that a regu-lar amount,” said Wade. “I wouldn’t read too much into the numbers; these are all unrelated things.”
Wade said anyone with information is urged to come forward.
“We released those (secu-rity camera) images with the hope that our campus community can help us out,” said Wade. “Any informa-tion anyone has would be really helpful with our investigation.”
“Obviously any time we see three campus safety notices in one week, I wouldn’t call that a regular amount ... I wouldn’t read too much into the num-
bers; these are all unrelated things.”PAT WADE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS POLICE SPOKESMAN
Offenders identifi ed from Monday pepper spray batterySecond battery and third safety notice in six days
scription drugs are misin-formed about the serious-ness of the offense.
“They don’t realize that actual criminal act, which is a felony,” McCullough said. “They don’t realize the University can dismiss somebody for a period of time because of that.”
The study reported that 71 percent of undergradu-ate students reported that obtaining stimulants was somewhat or very easy, and 82.6 percent of those students obtained stimu-lants from a friend.
About 53 percent of undergraduate stu-dents reported using ille-gal drugs like marijuana, cocaine or hallucinogens in place of their non-medical use of prescription drugs.
30 percent of students who used sedatives expe-riences memory loss as a consequence to their usage, and 63 percent of students who used stimulants report-ed experiencing a positive impact on their academics
as a result of their usage.Students across the
board overstated the per-centage of students who use non-prescription drugs, estimating that a third of students used stimulants.
Two similar studies on prescription drug misuse were conducted at Ohio State in 2008 and 2001.
According to Anne
McDaniel, associate direc-tor of research and data management at The Ohio State University’s Cen-ter for the Study of Stu-dent Life and author of the study, trends are consistent across the various studies.
“We did see a lot of the same fi ndings when we looked at other institutions. Ohio State wasn’t an outlier in any way,” McDaniel said.
The 2015 study included eight different universities by way of an anonymous online survey. Undergrad-uate, graduate and profes-sional students were all extensively surveyed as part of the study.
“This is the type of issue we have some basic descriptive data on, but this is the fi rst study that’s real-
ly more comprehensive and looking at more in-depth reasons on why they mis-use prescription drugs,” she said.
McDaniel said the study has a twofold purpose: to inform and to educate universities.
“We will do research and hopefully publish a manu-script off of the study,” she said. “But the primary pur-
pose is for institutions to have data about their stu-dents so they can appro-priately tailor educational efforts.”
This lack of education on prescription drug misuse is a major fi nding for police officers encountering prescription drug misuse. Students with misdemeanors or no criminal background using the drug to study for exams are often the major culprits, said McCullough.
McCul lough said offi cers approach students who use study drugs differently than those who sell second-hand prescription medication.
“We generally use it for an educational opportuni-
ty — from a policy stand-point, because the univer-sity is going to deal with it pretty strictly,” he said. “However when we fi nd somebody who is selling it, we will make a criminal arrest on that. They know what they’re doing. They’re trying to put drugs on the street.”
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ington in Virginia com-plained to the U.S. govern-ment about the failure of their school to protect them after they reported assault and death threats made on Yik Yak.
Storm said there are a number of resources at the
University aimed to protect students facing threats.
“If a student is experienc-ing harassment on social media, they defi nitely can reach out to the Women’s Resources Center, as well as the other cultural centers on campus, for supportive ser-vices,” said Molly McLay, assistant director at the Women’s Resource Center .
Brown encourages vic-
tims of prejudice-based harassment to contact the police and the Offi ce for Student Conflict Resolu-tion. The Offi ce of Diversi-ty, Equity and Access also recommends that victims of gender-based or sexual harassment contact their offi ce or use the We Care website.
Speaking out and alerting others to instances of dis-
crimination is also a feature adopted by the app. When encountering an offensive Yak, users can tap the post and hit the fl ag on the top right-hand corner of the screen.
Brown said preventing abusive behavior on social media requires a “holistic societal effort.”
BULLYINGFROM 1A
DRUGSFROM 1A
BY DAN HINKEL AND LAUREN ZUMBACHTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Upending the portrayal of Lt. Charles Joseph Gli-niewicz as a hero cop trag-ically gunned down in the line of duty just before his planned retirement, authori-ties on Wednesday said the Fox Lake, Ill., offi cer died in a suicide he staged as it became clear he could face consequences for years of criminal behavior.
At a news conference, Lake County Major Crime Task Force Cmdr. George Filenko said Gliniewicz, 52, shot himself in a “carefully staged suicide” designed to look like a murder after he had engaged in “extensive criminal acts.”
Gliniewicz ran the vil-lage’s Explorers program, which gave youths interest-ed in policing exposure to the fi eld, and he had been stealing and laundering money for years, Filenko said. Gliniewicz stole a dol-lar amount in the fi ve fi gures and used the money for per-sonal expenses, including mortgage payments, travel and adult websites, Filenko said.
The announcement marks the completion of a 180-degree turn for an investigation that began Sept. 1 with hundreds of offi cers, as well as dogs and helicopters, searching for suspects who appar-ently never existed. In the weeks that followed, Lake County authorities down-played the possibility that Gliniewicz had committed suicide while they followed leads and reviewed forensic test results.
Gliniewicz, a 30-year vet-eran and fi xture of the vil-lage, was laid to rest after a funeral attended by thou-sands at which he was por-trayed as a selfl ess public servant and devoted fami-ly man who gave his life for his community. The lieuten-ant, an Army veteran known to many as “G.I. Joe,” men-
tored many youths through the Explorers program, and some portrayed his death as evidence of an escalating war on police.
To the contrary, authori-ties said Wednesday, Glinie-wicz staged his suicide as it became clear that an audit of village procedures and equipment would reveal his purported thefts. Text mes-sages Gliniewicz sent before his death, which authori-ties revealed Wednesday, appeared to suggest threats against Village Manager Anne Marrin.
“There are no winners here. Gliniewicz committed the ultimate betrayal to the citizens he served and the entire law enforcement com-munity,” Filenko said. “The facts of his actions proved he behaved for years in a man-ner completely contrary to the image he portrayed.
“This is the fi rst time as a law enforcement offi cer … that I’ve felt ashamed by the acts of another police offi -cer,” he said.
Members of the lieu-tenant’s family, who have insisted he did not kill him-self, could not immediate-
ly be reached for comment. The ruling of suicide could have serious fi nancial con-sequences for Gliniewicz’s survivors, as the families of offi cers killed in the line of duty are eligible for bene-fi ts worth hundreds of thou-sands of dollars, attorneys said.
His death will likely con-tinue to reverberate, and oth-er people involved in alleged criminal activity before his death could face prosecu-tion, authorities said. The investigation indicates crim-inal acts by at least two other people, police said.
Lake County State’s Attor-ney Mike Nerheim said the results of the investigation have been turned over to his offi ce, as well as to the FBI, for investigation and poten-tial prosecution of alleged crimes that are not relat-ed to Gliniewicz’s shooting but were uncovered dur-ing the investigation into it. Nerheim declined to go into further detail, and the FBI declined to comment.
The question of how he died has driven controver-sy since shortly after offi -cers found Gliniewicz mor-
tally wounded in a remote, marshy area of the village.
About 8 a.m. Sept. 1, Gli-niewicz radioed in that he was pursuing two white males and a black male. After dispatchers lost contact with Gliniewicz, responding offi cers found him shot, with his .40-cali-ber handgun resting nearby. Offi cers didn’t initially fi nd the weapon in the tall grass, Filenko said, but eventually found it a little more than 2 feet away from him.
That touched off a mas-sive but fruitless manhunt followed by an investiga-tion initially geared toward fi nding the trio Gliniewicz described before he died. Offi cers tracked down three men captured on video in the area, but then announced they’d been ruled out as suspects.
Gliniewicz staged his death by leaving a trail of his equipment around the scene to try to mislead investigators, Filenko said. He fi red a shot into his pro-tective vest and aimed a second, fatal bullet beneath his vest in his upper torso, Filenko said.
BUCHAREST, Roma-nia — Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Wednesday that he and his government are set to step down amid public anger about corruption and a dead-ly weekend nightclub blaze.
Ponta, 43, has come under pressure from protests relat-ed to the government reac-tion to Friday’s blaze, which left 32 dead. Around 30,000 took to the streets Tuesday demanding his resignation.
“The anger is legitimate. It would have been a big mis-take to ignore it,” Ponta said.
Romanians largely blame the problems that led to the blaze on offi cial corruption, which allows venues such as the one hit by the fi re to operate despite safety shortfalls.
Iran marks US embas-sy storming as deal leaves rivalry intact
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran held rallies to mark the 36th anniversary of the storm-
ing of the U.S. embassy on Wednesday, the latest reminder that July’s land-mark nuclear deal has done little to reduce enmity between the Islamic Repub-lic’s top rulers and their longtime foe.
In downtown Tehran, around 2,000 people gath-ered in Taleghani Avenue, where the building that once housed the U.S. embassy is located. University students, school children and govern-ment workers, some bused in from outside the capital, held placards emblazoned with “Down with U.S.A.” and chanted “Death to America.”
The protests are held every Nov. 4 to mark the day in 1979 a group of Ira-nian students stormed the U.S. embassy demand-ing the extradition of the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. They seized dozens of hostages, holding 52 for more than 14 months.
Chipotle E. coli cases climb in Washington, fall in Oregon
The number of E. coli food-poisoning cases linked to Chipotle restaurants in the Northwest continues to rise, with 29 cases in Wash-ington. The count dropped from 12 to 10, in Oregon, however, for a total 39 con-fi rmed in the outbreak, health offi cials reported Wednesday.
Fourteen people have been hospitalized; no deaths have been reported.
Forty-three restaurants operated by the Mexican fast-food chain remain closed in the two states, as regional health offi cials scramble to identify the genetic fi ngerprint of the bug and federal offi cials prepare to send in an out-
break team.So far, many of the cas-
es appear to be caused by E. coli O26, a strain that produces Shiga toxins that can cause serious illness. Health offi cials suspect fresh produce may be the culprit, but test results of food from the restaurant sites — and the supply chain — are pending.
In Oregon, new lab results excluded three people originally thought to be part of the outbreak and confi rmed one suspect-ed case, for a total drop of two. Cases there range in age from 11 to 61. More cas-es could be reported, with a time frame that now dates to Oct. 1.
Private-sector job growth slows a bit to 182,000 in October
WASHINGTON — Pri-vate-sector job growth slowed slightly in October but still posted a solid gain of about 182,000 net new positions, payroll fi rm Auto-matic Data Processing Inc. said Wednesday.
The figure was down from 190,000 net new jobs created the previous month. ADP initially had estimat-ed job gains of 200,000 in September but revised that down on Wednesday.
Still, the private-sector labor market is performing well in the face of lower oil prices and a global econom-
ic slowdown that have hurt energy and manufactur-ing companies, said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, which assists ADP in preparing the report.
“The economy is creat-ing close to 200,000 jobs per month,” he said. “Job gains are broad-based with energy and manufacturing alone subtracting from the top line.”
ADP’s data is watched closely as an early signal of overall job growth ahead of the government’s job report.
Police arrest suspect in stabbing of Paris-bound train hero
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento police Wednes-day announced the arrest of a man in the stabbing last month of U.S. Airman Spencer Stone, one of three Americans who helped thwart an attack on a Par-is-bound train in August.
Stone, 23, was stabbed multiple times during a street fight in the pre-dawn hours of Oct. 8 after he and his friends had left a popular club. At the time, Sacramento police described the incident as a “very unfortunate alterca-tion between two groups of folks who were enjoying the
nightlife.”Sacramento police Chief
Sam Somers said offi cers secured a warrant Tuesday and on Wednesday morning arrested James Tran, 28, during a traffi c stop near his home in Elk Grove. The Sacramento County district attorney’s offi ce has decid-ed to seek attempted mur-der charges against Tran, police said. who Somers said has a record of past felonies.
Somers said the inves-tigation was developed through tips as well as foot-age from security cameras in the area.
Romanian Prime Minister to resign amid anger over club fi re
Illinois cop staged own suicide
They don’t realize the university can dismiss somebody for a period of time because of misusing prescription drug.
JOE MCCULLOUGHUNIVERSITY POLICE DEPARTMENT SERGEANT
STACEY WESCOTT TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICELake County Coroner Thomas Rudd, from left, Lake County Major Crime Task Force Cmdr. George Filenko and Lake County Sheriff’s Detective Chris Covelli confi rm that Fox Lake Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, 52, died of a self-infl icted gunshot wound last month during a press conference in Round Lake Beach, Ill., on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015.
I’ve fallen in love with two col-lege campuses during the course of my post-high school
career.First, Mount Holyoke: a small,
liberal arts women’s college in western Massachusetts, where you’re not a freshman but a first year—because down with the patriarchy.
As a member of the his-toric Seven Sisters colleges, Mount Holyoke has emerged at the forefront of the conversa-tion about what it means to be a woman, or a man for that matter, and what happens when a per-son’s gender does not align with their sex.
I left Mount Holyoke after my freshman year to attend the Uni-versity, for financial reasons and to be closer to where I grew up, in a northern suburb of Chicago.
However, my time at Mount Holyoke solidified for me that transgender students must be allowed to use the gender-spe-cific facilities with which they identify.
The option of gender-neutral bathrooms was offered campus-wide at Mount Holyoke, even
though it is technically a wom-en’s college.
I have adored every minute of my time at the University, both academically and socially.
However, I am also a Cauca-sian, cisgender female, mean-ing that I have experienced a lot of privileges that minority or non-cisgender students may not have.
To make the University more enjoyable for everyone, the administration should require all public dorms and buildings on campus to provide gender-inclusive facilities.
Not only would the Universi-ty be making an impact on the lives of transgender or gender-fluid students in the community, they would also be setting a pos-itive example for school districts across Illinois.
On Monday, federal educa-tion authorities found that Town-ship High School District 211 in Palatine, Illinois. violated anti-discrimination laws when it did not allow a transgender stu-dent who identifies as a girl and participates on a girls’ sports team to change and shower in the girls’ locker room without restrictions.
In a statement to the New York Times, John Knight, who is representing the student, argued that any legitimate con-cerns from the district have
been overshadowed by their attempts to challenge the stu-dent’s gender.
“The district’s insistence on separating my client from other students is blatant discrimina-tion. Rather than approaching this issue with sensitivity and dignity, the district has attempt-ed to justify its conduct by chal-lenging my client’s identity as a girl,” Knight said.
In an interview, also with the New York Times, District Super-intendent Dr. Daniel Cates said that the decision by federal edu-cation authorities to overrule the district’s decision has undone what Cates believes to be a fair compromise between the two parties.
Essentially, the student is allowed to participate on a wom-en’s sports team, and to be in the locker room with the rest of the team. However, when it comes time to shower or change, the student must do so behind a curtain.
That’s not a compromise, it’s dehumanizing.
If members of the team are uncomfortable changing and showering in the same room as their transgender teammate, they should notify their coach that they would like to move to a more private area of the lock-er room. If any of the students need further accommodations, they should remove themselves to another room.
And the student in ques-tion should have just as much authority to make her own deci-sion as to where she would like to change and shower. It’s very possible that as she undergoes surgical changes to her genitals, she would like some privacy as well.
High school students are old enough to make decisions about their personal space in these matters, and if some teammates would like to change separately from their transgender team-mate, that needs to be respected.
However, transgender stu-dents are human too. District 211’s actions suggest that it is
more focused on hiding its trans-gender student from sight than respecting her enough to make her own decisions as to what’s best for her physical and mental health, just like a cisgender stu-dent. And that’s disgraceful.
The University has made some improvement in the area of transgender rights.
Allen Hall, for instance, has a gender-inclusive wing, where all bathrooms are open to any gen-der. Wassaja Hall, which is open-ing in the fall of 2016, will have two clusters of gender-inclusive rooms. All bathrooms in the building will be individual use.
But, there is still more to be done.
By offering gender-neutral bathrooms in only a few places at the University, are we truly ensuring transgender students equal rights everywhere on campus?
We must all remember that transgender students have just as much right to their body as everyone else. That means giv-ing them the right to make their own decisions, whether it be in a high school locker room or a University bathroom.
The University has an oppor-tunity to make positive change. It should take it.
Jessie is a junior in Media. [email protected]
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O ver the past month or so, our staff has been sifting through numbers to create the annual Salary Guide, and in the process we stumbled upon a lot of interesting figures. One of the
most surprising however, was the distribution of donations made to the University in the past year.
As of June 30 — the end of fiscal year 2015 — the College of Engineering raked in $31,579,766.11 in donations. The Division of In-tercollegiate Athletics was a close second at $28,215,100.72. ACES was the next college in line. The college received $13,515,808.65 in fiscal year 2015 — nearly $20,000,000 less in donations than Engineering.
Sure, we could argue that we would like to see donations made more evenly across the board, but perhaps the University is already headed in that direction.
In fiscal year 2014, the University raised $52,840,370.19 in donations for Engineering. While 2015’s gap between Engineering and ACES seems large, it was bigger in fiscal year 2014, when only $11,764,894.48 was raised for ACES — this is $2 million less than this year’s amount.
ACES isn’t the only campus college getting more attention. Donations to Media increased by about $2 million and donations to LAS increased by about $1 million. And we hope this trend con-tinues.
We have an excellent Engineering program at the University and we believe that deserves do-nations and funding. But we also have amazing agricultural programs, phenomenal MCB paths and we’ll even go as far as to say we’re pretty big fans of the University’s Media programs. So, we’re glad those programs are receiving more funding and we’d like them to continue getting more attention and funds.
Donations across colleges are never going to be equal. And they shouldn’t be. Some colleges aren’t as big, others don’t need as much funding. But if the University of Illinois Foundation, the department responsible for fundraising here, could keep raising donations across the board, the whole campus would benefit.
A thriving campus is one where students and faculty in every major have ample resources. Everybody should be able to feel as though their major impacts the campus in a positive way.
Complaints that the University only cares about Engineering and Business are proba-
bly unfounded, but the difference in donations makes it hard to argue otherwise.
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Americans have a very strange relationship with mental illness.
Most often, the majority of us attempt to hush up mental illness wherever we encounter it in our-selves or others. We bind men-tal health to peoples’ personali-ties much too intimately, which causes us to be embarrassed to admit to struggling with a condi-tion that could be perceived as “crazy.”
When we do take the time to discuss mental health, we do so as though participating in a binary: Either we belittle, trivi-alize or normalize disorders or we treat them, to an unrealistic extent, as terrifying, uncontrolla-ble problems.
Tuesday evening, the United Muslim and Minority Advocates on campus hosted a lecture by Dr. Sarah N. Syed of the Khalil Insti-tute to create a discussion around the stigmas of mental illness and its intersection with race and oth-er sociological lenses.
Having discussions regard-ing the reality of and treatment options available for mental health disorders is essential to ensure that students at the Uni-versity can recognize when signs of mental health disorders begin to develop.
The fact is that mental illness is so prevalent that, in all like-lihood, you or someone you are close with will probably experi-ence it to some degree. Approxi-
mately one in every five adults experiences mental illness in a given year in the United States.
When you narrow it down to only the mental illnesses that interfere with everyday activ-ity, the number still remains sur-prisingly large. About one in 25 adults will experience a severe mental disorder within their lifetime.
Given this immense risk, stu-dents have to know that there are a multitude of resources avail-able for them on campus, includ-ing the Counseling Center and McKinley Health Center if they believe they may be developing a mental illness.
I’ve come across too many stu-dents who swear they could nev-er take medication for a men-tal health disorder, especially ones like anxiety or depression, because they don’t want to alter their personalities, alter who they are.
That inaccurate mindset trivi-alizes the issue. It also, incor-rectly, assumes that a person and their mental illness are one and the same.
Similarly, I’ve seen far too many students become frustrated with a friend with a mental health disorder because it feels as though he or she is being person-ally apathetic, mean, high-strung, etc. But someone with a mental illness cannot control his or her symptoms anymore than a person with a cold can control a cough.
Mental illnesses have to be taken seriously. We have to begin treating mental illnesses, on a social level, the same way that we would any physical ailment. We must eradicate the stigma that exists around seeking therapy,
psychotherapy, medication, etc., for mental wellness.
We can’t afford to not be talk-ing about this — we certainly can’t afford to be embarrassed about this. What we should be doing instead is dispelling popu-lar myths that restrict people with these disorders from seek-ing help.
Further, there are critical aspects to mental wellness to which we must eventually devote time for discussion, for instance how our perception of mental health intersects with race, socio-economic status, nationality, gen-der, etc.
One of the most insightful dis-cussions at Tuesday’s lecture was when students brought up that mass shootings are char-acterized differently by mental health as according to race. The media tends to emphasize that white offenders are likely strug-gling with mental health, but if a Muslim man were the shooter, it would likely be characterized as terrorism.
Women report mental health issues far more often than men. Many times, women’s mental health issues are stigmatized to a lesser degree than men’s. We need to actively be discovering why and how we can change that.
But we cannot even begin to have those discussions on a mean-ingful and influential level unless we begin by being more gener-ally open about mental health. This is an issue that will directly or indirectly affect every single person on this campus; it’s hard to ignore.
Alex is a senior in LAS. [email protected]
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JESSIE WEBSTER
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QUICKCOMMENTARY
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Finding balance for University donations across colleges
“UNFAVORITE” NEW TWITTER CHANGES
Somehow, in the age of constant updates — with fre-quently bad reviews following them — application devel-opers still haven’t learned the lesson that if something isn’t broken, you shouldn’t try to fix it. The Twitter is the latest app to fudge this up by changing the infamous “favorite” to a “like” with a heart. What is this blasphe-my? We want the favorites back! It goes without saying that people really don’t like this update — so Twitter, do us a favor(ite) and change it back.
THE YEAR WITHOUT AHARRY POTTER WEEKEND
Following suit of last year, ABC Family is abstaining from including a Harry Potter movie marathon during the infamous “25 Days of Christmas.” While we under-stand that these eight movies can take up a lot of air-time, removing some people’s favorite weekend from some people’s favorite 25 days doesn’t really make sense. Especially not when they play “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” six times, “The Santa Claus” 9 times and “Elf” 12 times. Petition to bring back a HPW anyone?
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now you’re busy with a lot of different projects. Why do you still make stand-up a priority?
Maher: The main reason is I love it. It’s really fun. It hasn’t always been fun. When you start out, com-edy is very painful those first few years, and then it’s sort of drudgery the next few years after that when you’re playing small clubs. If you’re lucky enough to start playing nice theaters, where people are coming out to see you instead of just some local comic at a comedy club, you might as well take advantage of that because that’s when it’s real-ly fun.
I just enjoy the hell out of it. The other reason I think it’s important is, as some-one who does a show every Friday night commenting on the country, I think I should see the country. I watch a lot of these people on televi-sion — Bill O’Reilly comes to mind — I don’t think Bill O’Reilly ever sees Ameri-ca, I think he sees the com-mute from Long Island to the Fox Studio in New York. He might talk about the fly-over states … I land in them.
DI: Do you make it a pri-ority to perform in smaller markets?
Maher: I try to go to every market. I say to my agent, give me some new territo-ries. Present me with some places people wouldn’t expect me to go. I love being in the South. I love being in red states, because there are always a lot of blue peo-ple dying for someone who thinks like them to come to their area. I’ll go anywhere where there’s a couple of thousand people who want to see some free-thinking comedy.
DI: You’ve been doing comedy for more than 20 years. Have you noticed any changes in the audience dur-ing that time?
Maher: Well they’re cer-tainly nicer to me. It’s one thing when you have to do out there and win them over. It’s nice when you go out there and you know the people know you, know what you do. It makes you really want to do it for them. There’s noth-ing I like better than looking down and seeing someone in the front row that’s just a puddle. That’s a big part of it. I don’t think the audi-ence has changed that much in my crowd, because they know who they’re going to see. They’re obviously peo-ple who are interested in the world, or they wouldn’t be seeing me.
DI: You’re coming through two college towns this tour. Do you find that you draw
the college crowd, or does your audience tend to be older?
Maher: It’s a mix. I’m always surprised when I see how many young peo-ple there are. It’s much more than it used to be. First of all, young people generally have less money, so it’s hard-er for them to buy a ticket to anything. I’m always grate-ful for a healthy percent-age of young people in the audience coming to see me. I think what millennials val-ue the most is authenticity. I think they really get that that’s my bond with the audi-ence. I’ll tell you how I feel, even if you don’t like it. Even if it makes you boo me, it’s at least real.
DI: You’re a comedian, but you also serve a role as a social critic and an edu-cator as well. What kind of responsibility do you think that puts on you?
Maher: I think it’s a tre-mendous responsibility, because I don’t think any other liberals do it. I think if you watch other liberal comedians who talk about politics, I don’t see any of them ever say anything that would challenge what lib-erals already believe. I’m a proud liberal, but some-times liberals are wrong too, and someone in their camp needs to try to tell them.
MAHERFROM 6A
University as an undergrad and then pursuing a career as a professor in the field.
“There were a lot of slices and hurtful comments along the way … And then when I took the job of working here, there was a lot of pushback because I was the first wom-an in the department,” Cov-erstone said. “There were people who didn’t want me here because it was differ-ent— it was change. And a lot of times, people don’t like change.”
However, Coverstone says that she believes this is because there is a lack of awareness of what S.T.E.M. jobs truly are. Being from a small town, she said she had no idea herself what engineering was before she arrived at the University.
Coverstone said she switched from a computer science and math major to an aerospace engineering major after a canoe trip she took with an all-boy dorm, where they discussed engi-neering and it piqued her interest.
“The more I found out about it, the more excit-ed I got, so I transferred
over,” she said. “It’s real-ly my passion for the series ‘Star Trek,’ and like I said, I wanted to be an astronaut.”
Despite some of the dis-crimination Coverstone received being the only female engineer in her aero-space classes, she said she looks back on her experi-ence with a positive attitude — joking that being one of
the only women is actually how she met her husband.
Coverstone also said that she feels as though the University and the Col-lege of Engineering is more diverse now than it has ever been.
“I think that we’re setting up awareness that these fields exist. I think that diversity not only means female and male, now we’re
bringing in international students,” Coverstone said. “When I went here, it was almost entirely Illinois stu-dents and a few out-of-state students. The way we’re moving is in a really posi-tive direction.”
Bryan Schley, senior in Engineering, said that from a male engineering perspective, he feels that sometimes female engi-neers actually have the upperhand.
“A lot of people are look-ing for the diversity now, so if you’re a girl it’s almost an advantage because it’s mostly males coming out of engineering majors,” Sch-ley said.
As the University strives to diversify its engineering programs and the entire campus in general, Cov-erstone said she hopes to continue to see this type of progress in the younger generations of women.
“I did not start off want-ing to be an engineer, I came here and learned about what engineering is,” she said. “That’s why I think it’s important for us to reach out to high schools and help young ladies learn what their options are.”
ENGINEERINGFROM 6A
“I think that diversity not only means female and male, now we’re
bringing in international students.”
VICTORIA COVERSTONEPROFESSOR IN AEROSPACE
ENGINEERING
KATHRYN BARON TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Respiratory therapy students Eliana Arroyo-Canella, left, and Kristina Rozynski, center, with Bonnie Hunt, professor and program director at Modesto Junior College in California.
BY KATHRYN BARONTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
MODESTO, Calif. — When Emily Littleton was growing up, she was often awoken at night by the sound of her younger sis-ter wheezing and strug-gling for breath from an asthma attack. Littleton would grab the nebulizer, hook it up for her sister and get her dad.
T h e e x p e r i e n c e remained deeply rooted in Littleton’s memory, resur-facing several years after she graduated from high school as a calling for a career.
The first time she attend-ed community college, Lit-tleton said she vacillat-ed from major to major, finally earning a two-year degree in natural sciences.
Then, while working at an assisted living facility, she heard about the respi-ratory therapy program at Modesto Junior College in California’s Central Val-ley, and her past echoed, directing her choice of a career.
In December, Littleton
and her 23 classmates will graduate with their associ-ate’s degrees.
But those degrees are already on the verge of becoming obsolete, as respiratory therapy and other skilled fields increas-ingly require a higher lev-el of education in order to meet rapidly expand-ing demands for greater technical know-how and knowledge.
An associate’s degree just won’t cut it anymore.
“I’ve been watching with great concern the fact that many employers who pre-viously required associate degree-level training now require bachelor’s degree-level training,” said Con-stance Carroll, chancellor of the San Diego Commu-nity College District.
Carroll helped launch a campaign to make it easier for students to earn bach-elor’s degrees in these key areas.
Last year, after two failed efforts, the state Legislature gave the go-ahead for some community colleges to offer bachelor’s
degrees on a limited basis. California, normally a
bellwether in public high-er education, was behind the curve this time: 21 states, from West Virgin-ia and Vermont to Florida and Texas, gave commu-nity colleges this opportu-nity years ago.
California’s law creat-ed pilot programs at 15 of the state’s 113 community colleges in specific high-needs technical fields.
From a pool of 34 appli-cants, the statewide com-munity college Board of Governors selected two schools to offer respira-tory therapy baccalaure-ates, two to offer dental hygiene degrees, and two others to offer degrees in health information management.
The board also gave approval to bachelor’s degree programs in auto-motive technology, air-frame manufacturing, equine industry, industrial automation, occupational studies, interaction design, biotechnology and mortu-ary science.
California’s community colleges will soon offer bachelor’s degrees
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OnNov. 8, comedian Bill Maher will be performing stand-up in Champaign at the histor-
ic Virginia Theatre . Since the late 1980s, Maher has been a staple of the American comedy scene. He is best known for his irreverent debate show on HBO, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” as well as his 2008 docu-mentary “Religulous,” which skewered the role of organized religion in the modern world. In anticipation of his performance, The Daily Illini spoke with Maher to dis-cuss comedy, politics and more.
Daily Illini: You had a stand-up spe-cial “Live from D.C.” come out just last year. Is the new performance mostly new material, or do you recycle old
jokes as well?Bill Maher: Oh no. Recycling old
stuff is not in my vocabulary. That’s the biggest no-no. I would never do that. If I paid to see a comedian and he did a
show I just saw last year on HBO, I’d be furious. One of the great advantages of doing topical material is that it changes all the time. I’m not the comedian who
needs to stare at a lamp to fi gure out what’s funny about it.
DI: So what should people expect? Your normal political commentary, or is there some other theme for this tour?
Maher: It’s certainly political com-mentary. The difference with stand-up as opposed to “Real Time” is that it’s all laugh-out-loud funny. That’s what stand-up is. I take it seriously. I don’t think a stand-up comedian should be a humorist. It’s not a lecture, it’s not a TED talk. It’s to make you laugh. But I think I cover the same kind of sub-jects I’ve always been into: politics, what’s going on in the world, religion. You know, the kinds of things you’re not supposed to bring up at a polite party.
DI: You started as a stand-up, but
BY JENNY HORNECONTRIBUTING WRITER
Engineering at the Uni-versity is renowned around the country. In fact, the college is one of the most nationally prestigious, rank-ing fi fth for undergraduate engineering in U.S. News & World Reports’ 2016 list.
However, the ranking criteria does not consider student demographics, and some Illinois students have noticed the undergraduate population in the college lacks gender diversity.
Catherine Ernst, junior in Engineering , said that her classes are predominately male.
“Typically I’m the only girl in my group projects,”
Ernst said. “It’s sad because sometimes I do really feel like an outcast in my major.”
Ernst said that this fre-quently discourages her in her studies.
“I have gotten the feel-ing from people that they don’t think I’m as smart as them … and I’ve had males in my classes tell me that they don’t want me as their partner because I’m not as smart as them,” Ernst said. “And I know it’s because I’m a female.”
Aerospace engineering professor Victoria Cover-stone said that she shared a similar experience to Ernst while she was attending the
ILLINOIS GETS REAL
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PHOTO COURTESY OF JANET VAN HAMReal Time With Bill Maher Season 10.
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BY MICHAL DWOJAKSTAFF WRITER
Illinois’ football game at Purdue on Saturday is important for many differ-ent reasons.
The Illini need to win two of their four remaining games to become bowl eli-gible and Saturday’s game against the Boilermakers will be a good opportuni-ty for Illinois to gain one of those wins. Bowl-eligibil-ity would improve the cur-rent staff’s resume when it’s time for Athletic Director Mike Thomas to decide on the team’s head coach going forward.
A bowl game would also be an opportunity for the senior players to leave on a high note, a motivation for many underclassmen on the team.
But for offensive lineman Ted Karras, there’s a differ-ent motivation. He was sur-prised that Purdue didn’t make an offer to the India-napolis native when he was in high school. One of his favor-ite memories was ending the Illini’s 20-game Big Ten los-ing streak in West Lafayette, Indiana, two years ago, but he is ready to create another.
“It’s my home state and the guys that didn’t offer me,” Karras said. “We ended a big losing streak there two
years ago, so I want to go do it again.”
Some of the players admit-ted that last year’s loss to the Boilermakers will fuel them heading into Saturday’s matchup. Illinois’ offense will need quick adjustments if it wants to leave with a win. Starter Josh Ferguson is like-ly to play, which will open up the Illini running game.
Freshman Ke’Shawn Vaughn has been the pri-mary rusher since Fergu-son’s injury and struggled against Penn State, but could rebound against the Boiler-makers. Purdue ranks last in the Big Ten in rushing defense and has allowed 16 rushing touchdowns and let opponents average 183 rush-ing yards against Purdue.
Illinois’ defense will try to rebound after allowing 39 points to the Nittany Lions. Purdue quarterback David Blough poses a problem in the air and on the ground. The freshman threw for 274 yards and four touchdowns and rushed for 82 yards, including a 56-yard touch-down against Nebraska last Saturday .
The Illini’s defensive line failed to create any pres-sure on Penn State quarter-back Christian Hackenberg after the unit showed vast improvements from last sea-
son. The linemen need to be a factor if players want to limit Blough’s impact.
“You have to go in there and play your game,” safety Clayton Fejedelem said. “Our defensive line has to go in there and impose their will, and that’ll allow us to throw in our defensive scheme and allow our defense do what we need to do to dictate the game.”
Illinois and Purdue will
be playing for the Purdue Cannon , a trophy that is pre-sented to the winner of the rivalry game. Purdue leads the trophy series 33-27-2 and reclaimed the trophy after last season’s 38-27 win at Illinois.
Rivalry games are exciting
for many of the players and they use it as extra motiva-tion. But with four games left in the season, a bowl-berth near reach and the future of the program hanging at the balance, the Illini know that Saturday will be an impor-tant game.
“It’s a trophy game and it’s huge,” Fejedelem. “This is a big game in the season, we have four games left and this is one where we need to come up after three loses.”
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TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIRunning back Ke’Shawn Vaughn makes a run down the sideline during the game against Iowa at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City on Oct. 10.
Football to play crucial game against Purdue
BY CHARLOTTE CARROLLSTAFF WRITER
When tight end Tim Clary received his scholar-ship back in August, the Illi-nois football coaching staff knew who to ask to deliver the honors: safety Clayton Fejedelem.
Fejedelem hid the enve-lope in his helmet wrapped in a plastic bag so it didn’t ruin from sweat, until the moment he tapped Clary on the shoulder to share the news. Clary didn’t want to immediately acknowledge Fejedelem, but the moment was well worth it when Clary
fi nally took the envelope and players crowded around to watch.
“Me and him fought for those scholarships,” Feje-delem said. “It was cool to see his eyes lighting up and the weight lifted off his shoulders.”
Fejedelem and Clary shared similar paths as walk-ons to starting for Illinois. So Fedejelem was thrilled he got to be the one to tell Clary. Both earned their scholarships and Feje-delem is proving this season why he deserved his.
He leads the Big Ten in
tackles per game during conference play (12.2) and is second in the Big Ten — 10 in the FBS — in total tackles per game (10.9). He had 19 tackles against Wisconsin, the most in the Big Ten and sixth most by an FBS play-er in a game this season. In addition, he has two inter-ceptions, 1.5 tackles for loss-es, four pass breakups and a forced fumble this season.
Fejedelem transferred in the spring of 2013 from NAIA powerhouse St. Xavi-er in Chicago. He helped St. Xavier fi nish 11-2 in 2012, tallying 87 tackles, 10.5
TFLs and three intercep-tions. Those numbers earned him second-team All-Mid-State Football Association honors.
Illinois’ defense is schemed in a way that demands a lot of activity from its safety. Fejedelem said the free safety is a free hitter in defensive coordi-nator Tim Banks’ scheme. In the past three seasons, a defensive back has been one of Illinois’ top tacklers.
“A lot of the plays we play a little differently where we’ll fl oat the free down the box a little bit every now and then,”
Fejedelem said. “This allows you to get another safety in there … We play cover four and if your corners can play man that allows you to have a nine-man box which is really effective in the run game.”
Fejedelem said Bank’s defensive style resembles that from his high school and St. Xavier days. He add-ed that it was not a hard tran-sition to make.
While the defensive line is performing well this season, Fejedelem has been a bright spot for an Illinois second-ary that has given up sever-al big plays. He was Illinois’
leading tackler in its last two games.
Head coach Bill Cubit said that defenses across the country often have a safety as one of their top tacklers because the scheme helps defend both the running and passing game.
“It says you got a pretty good safety coming down the hill,” Cubit said. “That’s why I really like that Clayton. I mean he doesn’t miss many tackles.”
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Fejedelem excels as Illinois’ leading tackler
Illini Tackle Leaders by Year
2014:Illinois made 1,048 total tackles/ opponents made 842 total tacklesLB Mason Monheim: 13 games/111 total tacklesDB Zane Petty: 13 games/109 total tacklesDB Taylor Barton: 12 games/100 total tackles
2013: Illinois made 967 total tackles/ opponents made 900 total tacklesLB Jonathan Brown: 12 games/119 total tacklesDB Earnest Thomas III: 12 games/101 total tacklesLB Mason Monheim: 12 games/97 total tackles
2012: Illinois made 879 total tackles/opponents made 862 total tacklesMason Monheim: 12 games/86 total tacklesSTAR Ashante Williams: 12 games/78 total tacklesDL Akeem Spence: 12 games/72 total tackles
2015: Illinois has made 603 total tackles/ opponents have made 593 total tacklesDB Clayton Fejedelem: 8 games/87 total tacklesLB T.J. Neal Jr.: 8 games/69 total tacklesLB Mason Monheim: 8 games/59 total tackles
Tackling Leaders of Illini Big Ten
OpponentsPenn State 39Illinois 0LB Jason Cabinda: 68 total tacklesDT Austin Johnson: 54 total tacklesS Jordan Lucas: 53 total tackles
Wisconsin 24Illinois 13ILB T.J. Edwards: 61 total tacklesOLB Joe Schobert: 56 total tacklesS Michael Caputo: 44 total tackles
Iowa 29Illinois 20OLB Cole Fisher: 67 total tacklesOLB Josey Jewell: 62 total tacklesDE Nate Meier: 49 total tackles
Illinois 14Nebraska 13S Byerson Cockrell: 51 total tacklesS Nate Gerry: 50 total tacklesCB Joshua Kalu: 49 total tackles
Illinois at Purdue When/Where: 11 a.m., Saturday at West Lafayette, IndianaTV/Radio: Big Ten Network/Fighting Illini Sports NetworkQuick note: Illinois faces a must-win against the Boilermakers with four games left in the season and two wins needed to become bowl-eligible.Hidden stat: Saturday’s game marks the 91st time meeting between Illinois and Purdue, dating back to 1890. The series with Purdue is the oldest in Illinois program history.
Fejedelem is everywhere, except in the backfi eld:The Illini safety leads the team in tackles, but only has 1.5 tackles for loss. Despite the signifi cant tackle numbers for Illinois’ defensive backs in the last few seasons, they don’t lead the Illini in tackles for loss. Defensive linemen dominate in that category.
2015:DE Dawaune Smoot: 12.5 TFLDT Chunky Clements: 9.5 TFLLB T.J. Neal Jr.:6.5 TFL
2014:DT Austin Teitsma: 9.5 TFLSTAR Earnest Thomas: 9.5 TFLDE Jihad Ward: 8.5 TFL
2013:LB Jonathan Brown: 15.0 TFLDE Houston Bates: 12.0 TFLDT Tim Kynard: 8.0 TFL
2012:LB Jonathan Brown: 9.5 TFLDT Akeem Spence: 7.0 TFLDE Michael Buchanan: 7.0 TFL
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The Illini football sea-son prior to last week-end’s 39-0 drubbing at
the hands of Penn State was well-represented by what Wes Lunt said following the team’s 29-20 loss to Iowa .
“We’re tired of moral victories.”
Last weekend, Illinois snapped its streak of moral victories, and this week, a moral victory is off the table against Purdue. The Illini need to win — it’s fair to say they need a moral victory against the Boilermakers.
If Bill Cubit and his guys can’t beat Purdue in West Lafayette, Illini dreams of a bowl game start to fade, the win against Nebraska will fade to memory and Cubit’s likelihood of coaching in Champaign long-term will be quite low.
Illinois is “supposed to” beat Purdue: any preseason Illini prediction — mine included — chalked up this
game as an orange and blue bloodbath. But this game doesn’t look like a lock any more.
The Boilermakers have the reigning Big Ten Offen-sive and Defensive Players of the Week at their dis-posal, and scored 55 points on a Nebraska defense that Illinois squeaked out two touchdowns against. Sure, they’re 2-6 and on paper,
they’re worse than Illinois.But last year, a two-win
Purdue team came into Memorial Stadium and embarrassed Tim Beckman and Co. before losing its fi nal six games of the sea-son. This year’s Boilermak-er team has three games remaining after they play the Illini: two are against ranked Iowa and North-
western teams and one is against Indiana, who is a hot and cold Big Ten team in the style of Illinois.
The Boilermakers won’t be favored in any of their remaining games. They’re a 2.5-point underdog against the Illini, and that’s prob-ably as close as they get, spread-wise, for the rest of the year.
If I was a Purdue player,
that’d be motivation. What would also be motivation would be the fact that Pur-due is 8-2 against Illinois in the teams’ last 10 matchups. The Illini have won twice at Ross-Ade Stadium since the turn of the century.
When asked about the Illini’s preparation for Penn State, senior safety Clayton Fejedelem said he thought
the team had some sloppy practices. If his assessment is right, going forward, the Illini can’t afford another week like the last.
On Monday, Ted Karras was more serious than he’s been all year, particularly when he was asked if any-one on the team quit against Penn State.
“No,” he said. “I’ve never seen anyone on this Univer-sity of Illinois team quit.”
And that matters, but only up to a point. There are no moral victories to be found in West Lafayette this weekend.
At the beginning of the season, the seniors and the captains talked about their goal of winning the Big Ten West. Now they’re talking about their goal of quali-fying for a bowl. They’re adjusting accordingly — Karras is right, they cer-tainly haven’t given up, but the way this season is going, for morale’s sake, they need a win against Purdue.
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OFFENSEQB Wes Lunt 12RB Josh Ferguson 6WR-X Geronimo Allison 8WR-T Desmond Cain 86WR-Z Malik Turner 11TE Tim Clary 47LT Austin Schmidt 57LG Chris Boles 55C Joe Spencer 71RG Ted Karras 69RT Christian DiLauro 67K Taylor Zalewski 17
DEFENSEDE Jihad Ward 17
NT Chunky Clements 11DT Rob Bain 16
LEO Dawuane Smoot 91WLB Mason Monheim 43
MLB T.J. Neal Jr. 52STAR Eric Finney 14
CB V’Angelo Bentley 2SS Taylor Barton 3
FS Clayton Fejedelem 20CB Eaton Spence 27
P Ryan Frain 13
OFFENSEQB David Blough 11TE Jordan Jurasevich 85WR Danny Anthrop 33WR Domonique Young 5WR DeAngelo Yancey 7RB Markell Jones 8LT David Hedelin 75LG Jason King, Jr. 72C Robert Kugler 57RG Jordan Roos 70RT Cameron Cermin 66K Paul Griggs 37
DEFENSEDT Jake Replogle 54NG Ryan Watson 92
DE Evan Panfi l 95RE Antoine Miles 11
WILL Danny Ezechukwu 36MIKE Jimmy Herman, Jr. 29
SAM Andy James Garcia, Jr. 42LCB Anthony Brown, Sr. 9
SS Leroy Clark, Jr. 3FS Robert Gregory, Jr. 7RCB Frankie Williams 24
PASSINGWes Lunt
174-for-313, 1,831 yards, 9 TD
RUSHINGKe’Shawn Vaughn
123 carries, 485 yards, 4 TD
Josh Ferguson71 carries, 397 yards, 3 TD
RECEIVINGGeronimo Allison
52 catches, 734 yards, 3 TD
Desmond Cain27 catches, 222 yards
Marchie Murdock20 catches, 194 yards, 3
TDMalik Turner
20 catches, 241 yards, 1 TD
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WEST DIVISIONEAST DIVISIONCONFOVERALL CONF.OVERALL
SEPT. 5 VS. KENT STATE — (W 52-3)SEPT. 12 VS. WESTERN ILLINOIS — (W 44-0)SEPT. 19 AT NORTH CAROLINA — (L 48-14)SEPT. 26 VS. MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE — (W 27-25)
OCT. 3 VS. NEBRASKA — (W 14-13)OCT. 10 AT IOWA — (L 29-20)OCT. 24 VS. WISCONSIN — (L 24-13)OCT. 31 AT PENN STATE — (L 39-0)
NOV. 7 AT PURDUE — 11 A.M.NOV. 14 VS. OHIO STATE — TBDNOV. 21 AT MINNESOTA — TBDNOV. 28 VS. NORTHWESTERN — TBD
SATURDAYILLINOIS AT PURDUE — 11 A.M.PENN STATE AT NORTHWESTERN — 11 A.M.IOWA AT INDIANA — 2:30 P.M.RUTGERS AT MICHIGAN — 2:30 P.M.WISCONSIN AT MARYLAND — 2:30 P.M.MICHIGAN STATE AT NEBRASKA — 7 P.M.MINNESOTA AT OHIO STATE — 7 P.M.
EYE ON THE ENEMY: ANTHONY BROWN:The defensive back leads Purdue with four interceptions this season — one more than Illinois’ interception leader Eaton Spence. Three of Brown’s interceptions came last week in the team’s victory against Nebraska. Brown won the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week award for his efforts. Brown and Illinois’ top wide receivers are Tampa
Bay natives.
LAST WEEK FOR PURDUEPurdue defeated conference foe Nebraska 55-45
behind David Blough’s fi ve passing and one rushing touchdown. Anthony Brown dominated on the defensive
end for the Boilermakers, intercepting three passes.
EYE ON THE ILLINI: WES LUNTLunt leads the Big Ten in completions per game with 21.8 and is fi fth in the conference in passing yards
per game (228.9). His nine passing touchdowns ranks sixth in the Big Ten. The redshirt junior quarterback has thrown four interceptions in 313 pass attempts, making
him one of the eight quarterbacks in the nation with over 250 pass attempts and four or less interceptions this
season.
HISTORYIllinois leads the overall series with Purdue 43-41. The
Illini won on their last trip to West Lafayette, in 2013, but the Boilermakers came out on top in Champaign last
year, 38-27.
DID YOU KNOW?The series with Purdue is the oldest in Illinois’ 125-year
history. The Boilermakers were one of two teams that the Illini played in the inaugural year of college football.
DAVID BLOUGH — QUARTERBACKThe quarterback has completed 57 percent of his passes the season, throwing for 1,104 yards, eight touchdowns and fi ve interceptions. Blough threw for 274 yards and four touchdowns last week in the Boilermakers’ 55-45 victory over the Cornhuskers, tossing no interceptions. He has 82 yards rushing this year on 10
GERONIMO ALLISON — WIDE RECEIVERAllison leads the Big Ten in receptions per game with 6.5 and is one of two Big Ten players averaging over 90 yards a game (91.8). The wideout has 52 catches for a total of 734 yards on the season — last season he had 41 receptions for 598 yards. Allison is a midseason addition to the Biletnikoff Award Watch List.
PASSINGDavid Blough
111-for-196, 1,104 yards, 8 TD
RUSHINGMarkell Jones
101 carries, 550 yards, 7 TD
D.J. Knox90 carries, 359 yards, 2 TD
RECEIVINGDanny Anthrop
38 catches, 283 yards, 2 TD
DeAngelo Yancey23 catches, 432 yards, 4
TDD.J. Knox
20 catches, 155 yardsMarkell Jones
18 catches, 138 yards, 1 TD
8-0 4-08-0 4-07-2 4-16-2 3-13-5 1-42-6 0-34-4 0-4
8-0 4-07-2 4-16-2 2-24-4 1-34-4 1-33-6 1-42-6 1-3
SEPT. 6 AT MARSHALL — (L 41-31)SEPT. 12 VS. INDIANA STATE — (W 38-14)SEPT. 19 VS. VIRGINIA TECH — (L 51-24)SEPT. 26 VS. BOWLING GREEN — (L 35-28)
OCT. 3 AT MICHIGAN STATE — (L 24-21)OCT. 10 VS. MINNESOTA — (L 41-13)OCT. 17 AT WISCONSIN — (L 24-7)OCT. 31 VS. NEBRASKA — (W 55-45)
NOV. 7 VS. ILLINOIS — 11 A.M.NOV. 14 AT NORTHWESTERN — 11 A.M.NOV. 21 AT IOWA — TBANOV. 28 AT INDIANA — TBA
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Purdue game a must-win for Cubit, bowl berth
TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIInterim head coach Bill Cubit is 1-1 against Purdue as an Illinois assistant.
PETER BAILEY-WELLS
Sports editor
If Bill Cubit and his guys can’t beat Purdue in West Lafayette, ... Cubit’s
likelihood of coaching in Champaign long term will be quite low.
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Editor’s note: Every week, The Daily Illini football staff will chat with a sports editor or football beat reporter from an opposing school’s paper. Up this week is The Exponent sports editor Brock Reish. His answers have been edited for space.
The Daily Illini: How big of a win was the Nebraska game?
BR: The win over Nebraska was huge for Purdue as a program. It was Hazell’s fi rst conference win in front of a home crowd. It was David Blough’s fi rst win as a starter. And it was a game that most people didn’t expect Purdue to win, at all. The Boilermakers have been in close games throughout the season, so to fi nally come out on top of one, means a lot to the team, coaching staff and Purdue football community.
DI: Is there a sense of hope now after the win or was it just a nice surprise?
BR: This one really
depends on who you ask. There were plenty of things in Purdue’s favor during Saturday’s matchup, and some will make the argument that the team lucked out, facing an inexperienced quarterback whose tendancy to turn the ball over gave Purdue great fi eld position and cost the Huskers the game. On the other hand, there was defi nitely hope to be found in that game. David Blough and the rest of the offense looked entirely different. He was moving more in pocket, making plays outside the pocket and even taking off on some runs he might not have tried earlier in the season. The Purdue defense gave the fans reason to be excited as well. Anthony Brown’s three interceptions, no matter how inexperienced the quarterback was, are somthing for him and the rest of the defense to be pround of. Whenever a team comes out plus-fi ve in the
turnover margin, you’ve got to give credit to more than just luck.
DI: What is the general feeling about football at Purdue?
BR: There are a few different categories of people when it comes to the general feeling about football here. Some fans gave up on the team weeks ago, and probably won’t be paying much attention unless they can string together three or four wins. Others see the upswing of the program. The Purdue football team of today is orders of magnitude better than the team Hazell was coaching his first year here. It have found a way to stay competitive in games throughout the season, but seem to just now be learning how to fi nish close matchups. Some people in the community see that, and they are the ones who are starting to get excited about Purdue football again.
DI: Is it just a matter
of time before head coach Darrell Hazell is fi red?
BR: I have no idea. Most of the people who say he is going to be fi red have gathered their information from online message boards and social media comment sections. There has been no offi cial word, no information from a reliable source and no concrete reason to think that is happening in the near future.
DI: What type of quarterback is David Blough?
BR: David Blough is whatever type of quarterback the coaching staff wants to put on the field. If the game plan invloves him handing the ball off and making short passes, he’ll do it. I think what the Nebraska game demonstrated, however, is what type of quarterback David Blough needs to be to thrive. During that game, Blough was outside the pocket, scrambling around, looking deep, taking off on
his feet. That style seems to fi t Blough much better than the Peyton Manning “sit in the pocket and take a sack if nobody’s open” style. I’m sure John Shoop and Hazell plan to use him in a similar fashion to what we saw on Saturday for the remainder of the season.
DI: What kind of defense should Illinois’ struggling offense expect?
BR: Purdue’s defense gets by on being solid everywhere, despite not being excellent in any one particular area. Up front, Evan Panfi l, Gelen Robinson and Jake Replogle lead the defensive line and have been able to get pressure on quarterbacks and slow down the run. The linebackers have been battling injuries since fall camp, but are playing well. Sophomore Ja’Whaun Bentley is out for the season after having ACL surgery and junior Jimmy Herman is a day-to-day decision with a hamstring injury. The younger players
that have been forced to step up are improving quickly and making an impact. The secondary is coming off a solid week, and is led by Brown and Frankie Williams, both senior cornerbacks. They are often touted as the most experienced defensive unit and created four turnovers against Nebraska.
DI: Why should Illinois not overlook Purdue on Saturday?
BR: Purdue has been just at the edge of getting some big wins for a while now. Coming off the win over Nebraska, it seems as if the Boilers are fi nally tying up some of the loose ends that were keeping them from victories earlier in the season. Illinois’ offense has been struggling and Purdue’s defense is fi nding its footing. I don’t think Illinois can afford to overlook Purdue and vice versa.
Reaching across enemy lines: Purdue
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Illinois’ offensive line was manhandled by Penn State’s dominant defensive line play. Purdue will be a chance for Illinois to be able to redeem itself at the line of scrimmage. Purdue has the worst rush defense in the conference, which
bodes well for Illinois. If Josh Ferguson returns, the Illini O-line will have a chance to use its strength to try and get Illinois’ poor rushing game going. Purdue will need to be on its toes, as last week it gave up 5.6 yards per carry to Nebraska’s Terrell Newby.
Both sides seem to be coming off of poor games, and this game is a pivotal one on each squad’s schedule. If the Illini win, they’re one game away from bowl eligibility and if Purdue wins, it establishes a Big Ten winning streak for the fi rst time since 2012.
Illinois’ most embarrass-ing loss last year was against Purdue, and any bowl hopes seemed to be gone. Even when they did win six games, some had doubts that Illinois would be one of the few teams not invited to play in a bowl game. Austin Appleby was the quar-terback for Purdue last sea-
son, and he had two rushing touchdowns and a 62-yard run that had Illini fans scratch-ing their heads. This time the quarterback will be David Blough, who had a very sim-ilar game against Nebraska. Blough had a 56-yard touch-down run, not to mention four passing touchdowns, that gar-
nered him Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors. If Illinois wants to get revenge for its rough loss last year, it starts with the defense stop-ping Blough, which seems a tall order after it gave up 39 points to Penn State last week.
This battle is one of two seniors, two Tampa natives and two players who will need to show up for their respective teams to succeed. Allison has been the biggest producer for the team due to the nasty injury bug Illi-nois’ skill positions have
caught. Allison was only had four grabs for 34 yards against Penn State. On the other side, Brown had a stel-lar game at cornerback for the Boilermakers, snagging three interceptions. He was named the Big Ten Defen-sive Player of the Week.
Allison will need to bring his A-game to end Illinois’ three-game losing streak, as well as get revenge for his Spoto High School Spartan’s 28-8 loss against Brown’s Hillsborough High School Terriers this past football season.
ILLINOIS O-LINE VS. PURDUE D-LINE
ILLINOIS DEFENSE VS. DAVID BLOUGH
GERONIMO ALLISON VS. ANTHONY BROWN
TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIThe Illinois defense tries to stop an Iowa rushing attempt during the game against Iowa at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa, on Oct. 10.
TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINI Quarterback Wes Lunt gets ready for the snap during the game against Iowa at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa, on Saturday, Oct. 10.
TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINIWide receiver Geronimo Allison runs for extra yards after a catch during the game against Iowa at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa, on Oct. 10.
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BY ELI SCHWADRONSTAFF WRITER
Freshman Ali Bastianelli is a 6-foot-3, tough-as-nails middle blocker who leads the Illinois volleyball team with 98 blocks on the season.
The source of Bastianelli’s toughness behind the net may come as a surprise. She’s a black belt in Karate.
The Marysville, Michigan, native participated in martial arts for seven years before realizing volleyball was her true passion. Bastianelli said her freshman year at Marys-ville High School, when she began playing National Club Volleyball, is when she knew she wanted to play the sport in college.
College coaches began to take notice of Bastianelli’s speed and court awareness. One of those coaches was from the University of Illi-nois, a man by the name of Kevin Hambly.
“I saw (her talent) in high school. I watched her make three moves, and I was like ‘I want her.’ She was the only middle I wanted in that class,” Hambly said. “I’ve always felt like we’re just trying to fi nd players who can block the way that she blocks. Same thing with Katie Stadick when she was a freshman and I saw her, and Anna Dorn when she was a freshman.”
Four years later, Bastianel-li is coming into her own as a starting middle blocker on the No. 18 program in the country. After tallying a team-high 14 combined blocks in wins over Michigan State and Michigan over the weekend, Bastianelli earned Big Ten Freshman of the Week and Co-Defensive Play-er of the Week honors.
Bastianelli said it felt good to be recognized for her hard work and that the accolades were a “nice surprise.” But the young gun was quick to credit her teammates for playing up to par, as well.
“I’m a team player, and it really was a team effort,” Bastianelli said. “Defensive-wise, without our tough serv-ing, it would’ve been hard to block and do the things I did.”
Senior setter Alexis Vil-iunas had high praise for Bastianelli.
“She has really adjusted to
the college level, and I can’t wait to see how much bet-ter she gets in these last few weeks of the season,” Vili-unas said. “She brings a lot of energy to the team and a lot of fi ght that our team has been looking for throughout the season.”
Throughout the fi rst half of the season, Bastianelli had trouble adjusting to the col-lege level. But Bastianelli is starting to turn the corner; she’s had more blocks over the past three matches than in any other three-match span this year. And Hambly approves of her play.
“She’s gotten better at attacking. Things are start-ing to click for her,” Hambly said. “(Early on), we were frustrated at times with her development … I think it’s a combination of the training and her really understand-ing what’s required. I think it just took her a while to learn and fi gure out what we were looking for.”
Hambly knew what he was looking for four years ago, when Bastianelli was a 14-year-old sensation in Michigan. Bastianelli went on to lead her club team to a fi rst-place fi nish at AAU Nationals in 2013 and was then selected to the Under Armour All-American in 2014 – her two favorite vol-leyball accomplishments.
She played against fresh-man setter and current team-mate Jordyn Poulter in the Under Armour All-Ameri-can game. Bastianelli said she defi nitely prefers having Poulter on her team.
Prior to teaming up with Poulter, Bastianelli was deciding between Michigan,
Stanford and Illinois before eventually choosing Ham-bly’s program.
Early on in the recruiting process, the veteran head coach noticed nuances in Bastianelli’s game, includ-ing her suddenness and her volleyball IQ, which set her apart from other middle blockers.
“(The best players) have
some quality about ‘em that’s different, and she’s defi nitely one of those. I would say that out of all the kids we’ve had, better things happen when the balls hit her hands than most players that we’ve had,” Hambly said. “Ali Bastianelli, for the most part, when she touches it, a good thing hap-pens. Some kids aren’t that way.
Bastianelli’s family is full of athletes. Her biggest inspi-ration has been her sister, Samantha, who played vol-leyball at Oakland Communi-ty College from 2012 to 2013.
Her father Gregory played football at Northwood Uni-versity from 1987 to 1988 in Michigan, her mother Joan played volleyball and basket-ball at Northwood from 1985
to 1989, and her cousin Kim-berly played ice hockey at Ohio State from 2008 to 2013.
As for Bastianelli, it appears she’s found her ath-letic niche. That is unless, of course, she decides to quit the team and join one of Illinois’ seven martial arts clubs.
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TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLININaya Crittenden (left) and Ali Bastianelli (right) jump to block and attack during the game against Michigan State at Huff Hall Friday.
Illinois vs NorthwesternWhen/Where: Saturday, 7 p.m., Huff HallRadio: WDWS 1400Quick Note: Ali Bastianelli earned Big Ten Co-Defensive Player and Freshman of the Week awards.Hidden Stat: The game marks the second time that Illinois faces Northwestern in a four day span.